Re: UC2 vs. UC3 - The pros and cons of each in retrospect

Something a lot of people seem to forget (Since I doubt a lot of people would actually like it) is that all power weapons spawned exactly 2 minutes after being picked up. In comparison, power weapons take 3 minutes to respawn. When you take into consideration that a lot of the maps in U2 had a bunch of power weapons, it was incredibly easy to spam power weapons and players almost always had a power weapon in their hands throughout the entire match.

Besides other minor things, such as the muting system, the lack of late joining, and a couple of other things, someone people also seem to think lag wasn't as bad in U2, when it was just as bad, if not worse. As others have a mentioned, a number of glitches that were never fixed break a lot of modes such a Plunder (Complete waste of time to even bother playing it, as you just run into glitchers running with the idol), Situational Awareness camping which kinda forced you to use Evasion if you didn't want to get cheaped, ect.

Really the only good things I'd say are good about U2 is the aiming, some of the custom game options, and the Co-op. As it is now, I'd say it's one a game that may seem fun when you go back to play it for a couple of matches, but if you continue to play it for too much longer, you'll soon grow to hate it.

Re: UC2 vs. UC3 - The pros and cons of each in retrospect

I play both games on a consistent basis, and, while UC2 is an amazing game, it's not absolutely perfect. Don't get me wrong, I love UC2, but the way people play it online can be incredibly annoying: spawn killing, camping, and, above all, Situational Awareness (or, as I like to call it, Bitchuational Awareness).I think Uncharted 2's Co-Op is far superior to UC3's, and the aiming mechanics in general are much better.

Uncharted 3 can be equally annoying, sometimes. People seem unaware of the L1 button's actual purpose, they camp, and the lag in this game is sometimes unbearable.

Suggestions: Remove all forms and variants of SA in all future Uncharted titles (UC3 still has quite a few), make blindfire a lot less accurate, fix Smoke Bomb, remove Quick Boom, remove the M9's Rate of Fire mod, fix the aim assist on the snipers, and add a region lock toggle. It would be nice to be able to play HC again, too.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Re: UC2 vs. UC3 - The pros and cons of each in retrospect

What it really comes down to is the company's inability to recognise what was best in UC2, and bring it to UC3. We can posit a similar inability moving forward to UC4.

Then, their inability to repair broken game issues and broken programming. There are still issues we saw in UC2 that aren't fixed now. How is it that party splits still happen? I mean... how exactly is that? Oh, wait, you can get assless chaps, so woot!

Look how long it took to remove kills from Plunder, and to properly balance the medals/cash.

Months. And More than a year, even though UC2 demosntrated how much better Objective game modes were with those implementations.

The effort and thought here is greatly appreciated. But game decisions are being made by morons, random lottery or hamsters. Our input is essentially immaterial.

Re: UC2 vs. UC3 - The pros and cons of each in retrospect

As it is now, I'd say it's one a game that may seem fun when you go back to play it for a couple of matches, but if you continue to play it for too much longer, you'll soon grow to hate it.

That is definitely true.

In economics there's a thing called the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility.

Basically as a person increases consumption of a product - while keeping consumption of other products constant - there is a decline in the marginal utility that person derives from consuming each additional unit of that product.

What this means is in terms of Uncharted 3, you play Uncharted 3 constantly over a period of days. Everytime you do so your enjoyment of the game will decrease until you no longer want to play it anymore. Take a break from it over a period of days, weeks or months and you may end up liking the game again.

Re: UC2 vs. UC3 - The pros and cons of each in retrospect

What it really comes down to is the company's inability to recognise what was best in UC2, and bring it to UC3. We can posit a similar inability moving forward to UC4.

Then, their inability to repair broken game issues and broken programming. There are still issues we saw in UC2 that aren't fixed now. How is it that party splits still happen? I mean... how exactly is that? Oh, wait, you can get assless chaps, so woot!

Look how long it took to remove kills from Plunder, and to properly balance the medals/cash.

Months. And More than a year, even though UC2 demosntrated how much better Objective game modes were with those implementations.

The effort and thought here is greatly appreciated. But game decisions are being made by morons, random lottery or hamsters. Our input is essentially immaterial.

Re: UC2 vs. UC3 - The pros and cons of each in retrospect

I play both games on a consistent basis, and, while UC2 is an amazing game, it's not absolutely perfect. Don't get me wrong, I love UC2, but the way people play it online can be incredibly annoying: spawn killing, camping, and, above all, Situational Awareness (or, as I like to call it, Bitchuational Awareness).I think Uncharted 2's Co-Op is far superior to UC3's, and the aiming mechanics in general are much better.

Uncharted 3 can be equally annoying, sometimes. People seem unaware of the L1 button's actual purpose, they camp, and the lag in this game is sometimes unbearable.

Suggestions: Remove all forms and variants of SA in all future Uncharted titles (UC3 still has quite a few), make blindfire a lot less accurate, fix Smoke Bomb, remove Quick Boom, remove the M9's Rate of Fire mod, fix the aim assist on the snipers, and add a region lock toggle. It would be nice to be able to play HC again, too.

Oh, you're absolutely correct. UC2 is FAR from a perfect experience. The game is populated by d-bags who have become pupils of the game for the past few years and learned every dirty trick/exploit that exists. They'll waste no time using them against you even if you've done nothing to them.

As it stands for me now, it's a toss-up. I like UC2's core gameplay mechanics more, but the game is old; support of the game by ND ended nearly 3 years ago and the community is no longer what it once was, naturally. On the other hand, I can't stand some of UC3's ridiculous design decisions and seemingly steps backward since UC2; however, I really like how ND has continued to support the game well past its release as well as all of the extra in-game content/unlocks to keep you playing for longer.